I request that you send me the briefest possible, yet precise, businesslike, factual report on what has been accomplished and where during the week of health improvement? Is there even a single province where something has been done sensibly?

Furthermore. What is being done (and what has been done?) in Moscow? who is responsible for the work? Only "bureaucrats" with grandiose Soviet titles, who understand absolutely nothing, who know nothing of the business, merely signing papers? Or are there businesslike leaders? Who exactly?

To achieve personal responsibility—that is what is most important.

What has been done to achieve personal responsibility?

Verification through whom?

Through inspectors? How many of them? who are they?

Through detachments of youth (KSM)? Do such detachments exist? How many? Where and how have they shown themselves?

What other means of real verification?

Are they spending money on the purchase of valuable items (carbolic acid? cleaning implements? how much has been purchased?) or on the maintenance of new "bureaucratic" idlers?

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars, V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

"Izvestiya" No. 18

Printed in full in 1933

First printed incompletely on January 22, 1927 in the newspaper in Lenin Collection XXIII

Printed from the manuscript